Slip of a Fish Mark Woodburn Poetry on the history of

Poetry on the history of utopia

The suicides have begun

Here he explores his own and other writers’ work to make distinctions between the discourses of tourist

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Her great gift as a writer is to take us to unexpected places

Slip of a Fish Mark Woodburn Poetry on the history ofShortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2019 Winner of the 2018 Northern Book Prize Ash collects words, climbs trees and swims in a deserted lake with her beloved seven year old, Charlie. Bemused by everyday life, she has a rich and singular interior world. Over the course of a relentlessly hot summer, Charlie begins to pull away, and in a desperate attempt to reconnect with her daughter Ash does something unforgivable. As the gulf between them grows,